I think it works the same

You and BrowserUK may well be right - so I thought I'd make use of the snippett BrowserUk provided and change 'power.pl' in the above example to: 
use Win32::API;

sub expo {
  my $function = Win32::API->new(
      'power.exe, 'int foo()',
  );
  $return = $function->Call();
  print "foo returned $return\n";
  my ($a, $b) = @_;
  return $a ** $b;
}

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I realise that foo() may not be exported by my 'power.exe', but thought I might as well give it a try. The output of running 'power.exe' now changes to: 
C:\_32\pscrpt\embed>power
Can't load module Win32::API, dynamic loading not available in this pe
+rl.
  (You may need to build a new perl executable which either supports
  dynamic loading or has the Win32::API module statically linked into 
+it.)
 at power.pl line 1
Compilation failed in require at power.pl line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at power.pl line 1.
Undefined subroutine &main::expo called at power.pl line 1.

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I don't normally have any such trouble with Win32::API, so I presume the message is telling me that the embedded perl interpreter is a static one - and I'll either have to link Win32::API statically to it, or embed an interpreter that supports dynamic loading.

Without knowing what's entailed, it doesn't sound particularly trivial to achieve, and I'm not sure that I really want to pursue it
:-)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^8: perl c++ perlembed question by syphilis
in thread perl c++ perlembed question by eth0nic

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